Is Idaho For Sale?

What do a California canned tomato king, a North Carolina gold hawker and a group of Libertarian college kids from Virginia have in common? They may be trying to buy our Idaho Republican primary.

Idaho voters who requested a mail-in ballot may have recently received a nasty piece of mail attacking a good Republicans like Donovan Harrington or Jerald Raymond. Most of these mailers aren’t sent out by candidates since that would mean taking credit for negative campaigning. They’re sent out as “independent expenditures” or “electioneering communications” by third party groups.

The biggest of the independent expenditures have come from Make Liberty Win, a Political Action Committee in Virginia. They’ve spent at least $98,938.10 urging Idaho Republicans to vote for far-right RINOs who call themselves “liberty legislators.”

What’s most interesting about Make Liberty Win PAC’s federal campaign finance report is what isn’t in it: a single penny from Idaho. All of their money comes from California…